Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stringy \String"y\, a.
   1. Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous;
      filamentous; as, a stringy root.

   2. Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous
      substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.

   {Stringy bark} (Bot.), a name given in Australia to several
      trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as {E. amygdalina, obliqua,
      capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, &
      tetradonta}), which have a fibrous bark used by the
      aborigines for making cordage and cloth.